Ghost of a Chance
[THE SCENE. INT. NIGHT-TIME. Adorno's flat. Max Horkheimer is present, dressed as a WOOLY MAMMOTH...Alban Berg plays Beethoven's "Apassionata" in the background in a way that makes Teddie happier than usual. ] Adorno, thumbing idly through his copy of Lucretius’s Rerum Natura and as if dictating: The goal of enlightenment is to emancipate ourselves from … Read more
Nudge-winking or How not to protest an obvious injustice
On Monday afternoon I signed Overland editor Jeff Sparrow’s open letter regarding Wikileaks founder Julian Assange I suppose I should be pleased (but not, obviously, surprised) by the fact that over the last two nights almost everyone in my Twitter feed (and the articles, blogs et cetera referenced by these people) seems to share my … Read more
